Cinga Leadership Essentials
Cinga's flagship leadership series, building the core skills of leading people, teams, and culture.
Course Series Description
As individuals move through their careers and take on the responsibility of leading others, the nature of their work changes – their performance is now measured by the health of their teams and their ability to build organizational capacity. This series covers the essentials. Participants increase self-awareness through learning about their unique leadership and communication style, build skills in leading high-performing teams, learn to identify and develop talent, and align culture and communication practices to support organizational effectiveness. Highly customizable: delivered as a full three-day program or as stand-alone skill-building workshops, consecutively or spread over 4–6 months, and can be aligned to client values, processes, and leadership messages with optional action-learning projects.
Learning Outcomes
During this course participants will be able to:
- Build greater self-awareness and improve exposure to blind spots
- Learn to communicate with impact
- Build and develop high-performing teams
- Manage performance and give useful feedback
- Resolve conflict and coach
- Align culture and improve cross-functional collaboration
Workshop 1 | Leading Self
In this module participants engage in a competitive experiential team activity designed to highlight communication and working style differences. They receive their Myers-Briggs® Type Indicator report explaining their own unique preferences and how this might impact those around them.
In this module participants discuss the difference between positional power and influence. Through a combination of instructor-led learning and role-play activities they have opportunities to practice effective communication techniques.
Workshop 2 | Leading Teams
In this module participants examine the characteristics of high-performing teams, stages of team development and importance of the leader’s role in sustained high-performance. Participants will have a specific list of characteristics to diagnose what stage of development their team is in and specific tools to support moving to high-performance.
In this module participants will learn how to identify and develop talent and build skills in providing effective feedback and coaching for performance.
Workshop 3 | Leading the Business
In this module participants learn how to build positive working environments and high-performing cultures through identifying aspects of culture they have influence over, performing a mini-culture audit on their own organization and commit to actions that will support improved performance.
Preparation Steps
- Complete the MBTI assessment online
- Short pre-read on the Leading Self / Teams / Business model
- Reflect on current leadership challenges and set one goal per workshop
- Agree development objectives with your line manager
Assessment Method
The assessment of a participant’s progress will be a combination of preparation assignments, classroom participation, and review of concepts during in-class activities as well as follow-up meetings with managers and peers to discuss examples of successful use of the tools provided in this course.
Course Customization Options
Cinga Leadership Essentials can be customized for the specific needs of clients through offering only some vs. all of the course modules, incorporation or alignment to client specific organizational messages (values, business processes etc), modifying the workshop delivery schedule (3 days consecutive or 3 days over a period of 4-6 months) and the addition of business relevant action learning projects.
Sustainment & Post-Work
- Personal leadership action plan with 2–3 commitments per workshop
- Manager debrief after each workshop
- Peer accountability pods between sessions (over 4–6 months)
- Optional action-learning project with an executive readout
- 30/60/90-day progress check-ins
- Booster touchpoint ~6 weeks after the final workshop.
